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Based upon Robert Marzano's book The Art and science of teaching.

Provides parents with definitions of forty different school-related issues, offers advice on how to assess possible problems, explains at-home solutions, and discusses the option of professional help.

Ways to promote learning in your students.

The author examines evidence that people can increase their reflective intelligence--the ability to reflect upon one's thinking patterns and change them--and discusses implications for business, education, and society.

The authors explain how recent advances in neuropsychology and understanding how the brain learns support the principle of differentiation in education and how this information will enable teachers to make the best curricular, instructional, and assessment choices to meet the needs of diverse student populations.

A guide for educators to incorporate visual learning into the classroom environment, and provides hundreds of ready-to-use visual learning activities that are designed to help teachers add high-impact visual teaching strategies to their lesson plans.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that explore the biological and behavioral components of learning. 'Includes information on the theories and experiments of twenty-six of the leading individuals associated with the field.